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Desire and the ascetic ideal : Buddhism and Hinduism in the works of T.S. Eliot /
"T.S. Eliot was crucially influenced by his early engagement with Indian texts, and when analyzed through this lens, his poems reveal a criticism of the attachments of human desire and the suggestion that asceticism might hold out the possibility that desire can be cultivated toward a metaphysi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2023.
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| Colección: | Studies in Religion and Culture
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Eliot and skillful means
- Skillful means and asceticism in T.S. Eliot's critique of Schopenhauer
- T.S. Eliot's Ars religiosa : transmigration and faith in knowledge and experience
- India among the fragments : pessimism and desire in The waste land
- Language and the cultivation of desire in "The fire sermon"
- Transcendence revisited : hallucination and literary asceticism
- Language in the middle way : T.S. Eliot's engagement with Madhyamaka Buddhism in Four quartets
- Performing the divine illusion : memory, desire, and the performance of form in Burnt Norton.